Outstanding actions from last meeting

MacSlow to update clutter to appropriate version, not worrying about parallel install

Wasn't able to be completed, should be confirmed with Mark or handed off to someone else.

seele to follow up with Jono about usability testing swag

Still no reply from Jono.

MacSlow to merge goffice, seb128 to help him understand what's going on

Done.

Actions from this meeting

EVERYONE to cease sending activity reports to distro-team and only to line manager

EVERYONE to cc pitti next week

Sending activity reports

Activity reports should in future be only sent to one's line manager, and not to the distro-team mailing list. The reports will continue to be incorporated into the team meeting reports, and mailed to the distro-team and ubuntu-desktop mailing lists.

If you have particular agenda items you feel are worth discussion beforehand, use the ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-devel mailing lists as they're intended, and send a mail to them to begin a discussion.

Next week's team meeting

pitti will lead next week's meeting, while many of the team are at GUADEC. All should cc their activity reports to him.

GUADEC

Reminder to everyone to check their roomie, etc. and make sure they know where they are going and who they're sharing with.

Agenda:

bzr: the Bazaar folks are sending a veritable army to persuade GNOME to use it over git

Mirco, Ted and me

A brief talk about the coming changes, and clarifying that Mirco and Ted will be full time seconded to the experience team until a manager is hired, at which point they will transfer to it.

IM Future

tedg asked for opinions about which of Pidgin or Telepathy appears to be the most likely to be the default on future Ubuntu desktops. Consensus was that Pidgin is today, and for the near future, and the Telepathy has a way to go yet but has more promise perhaps overall.

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

fixing seeds and making packages installable for intrepid alpha 1

intrepid alpha 1 CD testing

hardy.1 CD testing, all ready to go

archive administration (most of a day)

blocked:

1 main inclusion report still needing review

Kubuntu website

next week:

investigate getting knetworkmanager 0.7 working

on holiday July 7 to 11

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

NewHuman metacity changes: button outline and gradient changes, different vertical top gradients to better show an area to grab, fixed focused/unfocused title text position bug.

NewHuman gtkrc changes: link and activated link bug fixed (thanks Neil!)...it only fixes a few apps but that is better than nothing, colour choosing fixes, murrine-nautilus-location fix (ugly blue bar in trash window), removed all highlight_ratio entries for specific widgets, now it only uses global highlights, also increased highlight slightly, although I think that making the menu selection highlight less hard glossy (different murrine gloss style) might be better, tweaking colors (lighter input bg colors since all text editors use that as the document bg), adding nautilus

bg color. (Thanks to Conn O'Griofa for the help)

Human-Murrine and Human-Clearlooks gtkrc changes: both had colour problems with GtkProgressBar widgets embedded in other widgets - for example, in Deluge. Also if you changed the selected fg colour, Metacity's colour would change unexpectedly. Those issues are now fixed. Removed some highlight_ratio entries for some widgets, increased global highlight slightly.

LOTS of discussion about the dark theme. Ars Technica takes a decent light on it and gets the point whereas the forum doesn't (someone said I should be shot :p) I did not expect this amount of response and apprently did not

realize how many people install and/or look at screenshots of our alpha's (more of the later I guess). Gosh, Ubuntu is popular

Looking into fonts (and licensing thereof). The Liberation fonts are simply the best freely available document fonts - we need to use these as default in OOo and similar apps. The droid family is a pretty good screen-optimized

condensed font, in some ways better than it's MS older brother. From what I can find online it is released under the apache license but there are no available downloads other than a direct copy from the Android image which includes no license. If anyone has any information on the droid fonts or knows someone at google to figure out the licensing let me know.

ibex wallpaper work on the side, nothing amazing yet

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Only a 2-workday-week due to me being on holidays from Friday to Tuesday.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

Michael Vogt (mvo)

look at porting the auto-upgrader to libvirt (postponed for now, too much changes)

add vm snapshot/restore functionatliy to the upgrader to make some operations faster

add auto-install-tester script to the upgrader based on the loadvm/savevm stuff - while this is good stuff in theory in practise it is unfortunately not very reliable and after loadvm stuff tends to segfault (or freeze) in the VM on both hardy and intrepid (reported as LP #244467) once this is resolved it should make building the base images for upgrade testing much easier

fixes in the changelog parsing code and fallback functionality when no changelog is available yet

split language-selector default language and fontconfig-voodoo functionatliy out into a dbus backend that is then protected by policykit for the SystemPreferences spec and the no-more-gksu spec. not perfect yet but available in the lp:~mvo/language-selector/dbus branch (policykit has some funny limitations like "action id"s can only be lowercase ?!? - took me a bit to figure that out)